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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1949
Page
10
In Woman's World, Elta Hateley advises choosing lamps to match room style, color, and furniture. She notes lamps should be large, inconspicuous, and versatile, with floor lamps often preferred, and recommends a shade with a reflection bowl to reduce glare and a unitary base and shade shape.
Guidance on pairing lamp shades with bases using simple colors and durable materials. Advice covers shade materials such as parchment, silk, and paper, and bases like brass copper silver pewter and pottery. Emphasizes keeping shade simple, proportioned to base, and selecting appropriate lighting for room style.
Winter weather brings a striking display of fashionable hoods and coats featuring velvet and velveteen fabrics. Navy and striped contrasts, black and red color pairings, and leopard prints with pied interlining create practical yet stylish daytime and nighttime wear for treks across campus.
INEZ GERHARD surveys shifts in radio and film as stars change networks and projects unfold. Benny leaves NBC for CBS after 17 years, Fred Allen hints at retirement, Al Jolson joins the chorus, and Edgar Bergen shifts toward television. Despite critics, daytime serials endure, Perry Como’s son Ronnie balks at introducing his church choristers, and Goldwyn plans a big musical.
Readers receive practical pie making guidance with crust tips and several recipes including lemonade lemon chiffon pie orange meringue pie and coconut custard pie. The column mixes baking instructions with meal planning tips and decorative serving ideas.
A compact menu combines textures with carrot timbales asparagus tips and braised mushrooms alongside a simple Shepherds pie with potato topping minted carrots and cabbage slaw plus apricot and cherry upside down cake. Also a cold night option braised short ribs with potatoes spinach or broccoli butter and a scotch pudding and a chicken pie served with vegetable salad and a heavenly chocolate cake.
Advertisement for crochet pattern sets, describing a hat and muff set and four doily sizes. Mentioned pattern numbers 5841 and 5817, price 20 cents each, requires heavy wool, includes embroidery and stitch instructions, and asks for name and address.
A set of ten questions covering presidential history geography science demographics and wartime economics. Topics include Declaration signers who became president fastest light speed sprout location college football admission spending in 1947 shortest presidency single state borders baby weight gain at one year munitions industry peak employment in WWII and Philadelphia port ranking in 1942 and 1947.
The list presents paired names Jefferson and John Adams, a vague speed of approximately 186000 miles per second, a fishing tackle hook, an amount near 88000000 dollars, president William Henry Harrison dying of pneumonia a month after his inauguration, Maine’s separation from neighboring states by New Hampshire, a baby tripling birth weight by age one, a figure 10300000, a destination to a golf course, and the ordinal Second.
The tip of a hard toothpaste tube can be softened by holding it under warm water for about a minute. This helps the paste loosen and flow from the top again without forcing holes elsewhere.
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